Preheat oven to 150C degrees.
Melt the butter, chocolate, and milk together until smooth. In the meantime, mix the remaining ingredients in a bowl, and then add the chocolate mixture in slowly. Using a teaspoon, scoop batter onto a cookie sheet, setting each scoop at least 3 cm apart (the cookies double in size in the oven). Bake in the oven 20-30 minutes. The cookies will be slightly soft when ready.

They go really well with Irish coffee – that’s coffee with a tablespoon of Irish cream. Irish music optional.

I’m going bake-crazy!
Sunday was brownies.
Monday was bread.
Today I was going to do some cleaning up. Yeah, right. I lasted an hour, than I decided I HAD to try something that I’ve been meaning to do for a while.
So here’s my recipe for vegan halva cookies:
Preheat oven to 160C degrees.
2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup sugar (brown or white goes)
1/2 cup unmixed sesame tahini
1/2 cup olive oil
mix
scoop spoonfuls onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper
bake and be careful not to burn them – my oven took 15 minutes. If they start darkening, take them out immediately, these will burn easily.
Cool completely before eating.
You will probably have to make another batch for the original purpose because you may well eat them all up as soon as they’re ready. But these are guilt-free calories, the ingredients are all super healthy.
And, if my culinary productivity isn’t enough to get you very concerned, I’m starting an Undertaking of Grandiose Proportions. Let’s just say it involves a certain curly girl’s birthday and these:
I’m not disclosing any further information in case it doesn’t end up happening so I don’t cause myself more public humiliation than absolutely necessary.

I’m having a series of good days. Kant’s socks are done, and many lessons have been learned from them about sock knitting in general, and the odd deformities of my feet in particular.
So of course I feel accomplished enough to experiment with building my own pair of toe-up socks, with some bamboo yarn, which is also an experiment.
I am also in negotiations to score a significant amount of dyeable yarns. I’ve enrolled Yiftah to Neta’s daycare starting September, and I’m already smelling the freedom in the air.
To increase my levels of awesomeness, I baked some fabulous bread today, and decided that I’m not going to buy bread anymore.
Here’s the recipe. I sorta winged it:
Preheat oven to 180C degrees, and mix
500 ml self-rising flour
500 ml whole wheat flour
330 ml pale lager
a pinch of salt
knead into dough, shape loaf as you wish (you can make it rounder or longer)
bake on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper – my oven got it right in 35 minutes
Yum.
My next experiment in breadmaking will involve freezing unbaked loaves so I can make a large amount and then pop a loaf in the oven as necessary.

I’m off to try to ride this high for as long as possible. At the moment, my world is a good one.